I liked that Rosemary was his Thing.

Say No to Twee.

"I made a rope out of my clothes and then this fire started."

Matt Elliott's "The Kursk" ( http://www.youtube.com/watc… ) is worth a listen.

I'm pretty sure it's in Wolf, too.

I think it's worth repeating that "alternative" was just a '90s media word that helped give the white-youth-oriented rock that replaced '80s metal credibility. The subcultural landscape of the '80s was far less homogenous than the '90s.

Exactly. What was Alanis Morisette but a simple pop singer with squashed guitars where synths would normally be?

Do women really like Mr Darcy?

"women have somehow dodged a huge bullet and need to be called on their own mirror-image fred durst figures at some point"

I really think people's memories of specific decades are mostly just fantasies based on what they liked at the time. The '90s wasn't about alternarock for most people, it was the decade of Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Boyz II Men and all that other fucking overdramatic, hyper-sentimental shite.

After being obsessed with Waters-era Floyd for most of my early teens, the apocalyptic scale of that album was my first new musical obsession. Limo Wreck, Head Down, The Day I Tried to Live and Fourth of July are just terrifyingly wonderful.

I also liked it. I think its bombast is perfectly Bondian.

Chocolate Jesus, by Tom Waits.

We're also further from the production of Back to the Future than Back to the Future was was from the '50s.

Did you enjoy it?

Did you enjoy it?

I find it strange how fixated white American women seem to be with emulating black catchphrases for "fun". I had the unfortunate experience of being stuck on a bus with a gaggle of them doing everything from the Arsenio "ooh-ooh-ooh" fist-pump to the "go-gir'frien'-go-gir'frien'-go-gir'frien'" gyration. Which both,…

It's actually interesting to hear this point of view from a Jewish person. Claims that the Holocaust monopolises genocide sympathies often get made by antisemites trying to seem progressive, or are at least tarred with that brush.

Odd, I thought that was Stalin.

No "Jism", by Tindersticks? They make the line "I'll overflow your every inlet" sound classy.